Theme 1: Earning Income


CCSS Correlation-
*MD1- Math- Organize, Represent and Interpret Data
*RL1- Reading/Comprehension-.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in text
*RL3-text to text, text to self, text to world connections

Essential Understanding-
What is money?
How do you earn money?
What goods and services do community helpers provide?


Curriculum Integration-

1. Vocabulary- “Human Capital”, “income” for lesson 1
“ goods and services”, “entrepreneurs”, “resources” for lesson 2
“money-coins and paper” for lesson 3

2. Text to text connections, text to self-connections
3. Provide students with coins to sort and graph

References- Lesson 1- Bate, Lucy , Little Rabbit’s Loose Tooth, Lesson 2- Berenstain, Stan & Jan, The Berenstain Bears and Mama’s New Job, Brown, Marc- Arthur’s Pet Business, Halperin, Wendy Anderson- Once Upon a Company, Lesson 3- Berger, Melvin& Gilda, Round and Round the Money Goes, Maccarone, Grace, Monster Money http://fffl.councilforeconed.org/k-2/lesson2

Modification for ELL, SPED, etc.-

picture vocabulary cards, coin manipulatives, Extension – Art- Have students create business cards for their business in Busy Town Music- various songs about earning money to familiar tunes (see teacher guide lesson 1-3 for examples) Pre and Post Assessments Administer Test 1 and Test 2 from “Financial Fitness for Life” program as a pre- and post-test to check for vocabulary understanding. Extension Activity- Have students choose a community helper and decide what work skills they have and what goods and services they produce.




Theme 2: Saving

CCSS Correlation:
K.MD Math: Classify objects and count the number of objects in each category.
RL Literature: Compare and contrast experiences of familiar characters in stories.

Essential Understanding
How do you earn money?
Students will understand that we earn money by working.
What type of job could you do to earn the most money?
You earn the most money by working as a doctor, engineer, lawyers or CEO of a company.
Who is an entrepreneur?
Is a special worker who develops a new product or a new way of producing goods and services?

Curriculum Integration
The Berenstein Bears and mama’s new job,
The Penny Pot by Stewart J. Murphy
How Much Is a Million? by David A shwartz.
Jobs people do by Christopher Maynard




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Theme 3: Spending
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Theme 4: Credit
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Theme 5: Money Management
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